AM and FM on PA-NY border sold

WTSX-FM Lehman Township PA and WDLC-AM Port Jervis NY are in the same vicinity, but don’t quite manage to get any primary contour overlap....

Government tries to counter cigarette marketing

Health-related elements of the United States government are hoping to make a dent in tobacco sales, and have the advantage of their choice of...

Local Media TV stockpiles more big market Class A’s

A group of investors with various television investors have acquired low power television assets in
Arbitron

DG dominates the RADAR dojo

Arbitron has released the RADAR March 2012 (RADAR 112) network ratings. The composition this time around is quite different than the

Pure Michigan kicks off 2012 campaign

The Pure Michigan national cable TV campaign for spring and summer hit the airwaves across the country 3/19. It runs through June. This year,...
Pandora

Royalties cost Pandora big bucks

The annual 10-K which Pandora Media just filed with the SEC contains lots of the usual boiler

“This American Life” report retracted from PRI

Public Radio International’s weekly radio show “This American Life” retracted a report on conditions of Chinese workers who make Apple products. Said the show,...
Newspaper

22 in a row for American newspapers

That’s how many consecutive down quarters US newspapers as a group have now suffered through
Nielsen

Nielsen to launch Cross-Platform Campaign Ratings

Nielsen is getting closer to offering what advertisers have been asking for years now: a system that
Pile of Money

Nielsen backers to take some cash

The private equity funds who took Nielsen (then VNU) private in 2006 and then took it public again in
NCAA March Madness

March Madness delivering big audience

CBS Sports and Turner Sports' exclusive second-round coverage of the 2012 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball
ABC

Shark show feeds ABC Friday ratings

ABC finished a solid second on Friday to CBS with NCAA Basketball coverage in Total Viewers and Adults 18-49

More Class A TVs facing status challenge from FCC

Three more notification have been sent out by the FCC involving a total of seven Class A stations – they are all being
Deal

Corpus Christi TV deal brews up paper storm

Transaction applications. Contracts for license assets. Contracts for operational assets. Contracts for
Dollar Sign

Station must pay up for failure to power down

An AM station operating on the northwestern edge of the Houston market sparked complaints that it